MEMAHAMI PENYEBAB KEBAKARAN HUTAN DAN LAHAN SERTA UPAYA PENANGGULANGANNYA: KASUS DI PROVINSI KALIMANTAN BARAT

Abstract

Land and forest fire have grabbed much concern and been considered as national issue. The
event occurs repeatedly year by year, specifically in Sumatra and Kalimantan islands.
Government institutions and local community, including farmers and estate enterprises have a
very close linkage in such disaster. The smoke produced by the fire has been transformed into
a widespread of thick cloud and immediately affects health conditions of the community. The
smoke also directly interfere river, land, and air transport systems, thus influencing basic
socio-economic life of human being. This paper is aimed at understanding about how forest
fire occurs and its effect on agricultural sector. With rapid rural appraisal method, this paper
eventually comes to main results and findings as follows: (a) elaboration of five identified
typologies of land and forest fire, (b) analysis of direct and indirect impacts of the fire on
agricultural sector, (c) identification of who and why land and forest fire occur, and (d)
recommendation of programs to persuasively eliminate land and forest fire. Many parties
have its own share and proportion to contribute to land and forest fire. Imbalanced-nature
occurs and causes specific disaster with environment degradation. People have many
difficulties to recover from such situation. The successful to get rid of land and forest fire is
heavily depending on how alternative applied technologies can easily be adopted and law
enforcement can widely be implemented.